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- Mobilization for Climate Justice
Chevron Refinery, Richmond, CA- htt...
Saturday, August 15 at 11:30am - RAN’s Annual Los Angeles Benefit
The home of Paul & Deborah Haggis
Sunday, June 28 at 3:30pm - RAN’s Annual Boulder Benefit
The home of Sue Thompson
Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30pm - Art in Action – Combating Clim...
LOOK Gallery
Thursday, June 4 at 6:00pm - Mike Brune at the Core Club on...
The Core Club
Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm - Global Day of Climate Action 2...
Back steps of the Vancouver Art Gal...
Sunday, December 7 at 11:00am - RAN/RYSE/SEAC Regional Gatheri...
Cabrini Center, Chicago, IL http:/...
Friday, September 19 at 5:00pm
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Save Coal River Mountain Rally!Created on Monday
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Rainforest Action Network RAN's Joshua Kahn Russell helped lead the largest action inside of the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations alongside several hundred youth!
Rainforest Action Network
Forests and the climate are inextricably linked.
We’ve always known that rainforests have a profound effect on our weather, regulating rainfall patterns and reflecting sunlight to help insulate the planet. With growing awareness of climate change, the role that rainforests play in absorbing carbon dioxide is becoming ev...er more apparent – old growth tropical forests absorb and store almost 15 percent of the worlds C02 from the atmosphere each year.
That means that losing rainforests is a double whammy – producing huge emissions as trees and soils are burned (releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere) while eliminating one of our best means of absorbing emissions back into the ground.
Worldwide, the degradation and destruction of tropical rainforests is responsible for fifteen percent of all annual greenhouse emissions. That’s more than the emissions from all the cars, planes, trucks, buses and trains in the U.S. combined.
At Rainforest Action Network, we believe that protecting forests is an integral part of saving the climate.
Southeast Asia is one of the worst spots for deforestation and climate change. Indonesia alone has become the third largest global greenhouse gas emitter due mainly to deforestation of islands like Borneo and Sumatra.
Saving the rainforest requires the same system changes that stopping fossil fuels does – a new greener world based on sustainability, not consumption.
Our Tropical Forests Program is tackling the two greatest drivers of rainforest destruction in Southeast Asia: industrial palm oil and paper pulp plantations. RAN is focusing on reducing market demand for environmentally and socially irresponsible palm oil and paper products and transforming global supply chains. Working with partners in the U.S, Indonesia and around the world, RAN’s campaigns create the market leverage necessary to improve both corporate and government policies and practices.
You can help stop the destruction of these rainforests and provide a concrete solution to climate change.
Sign up today to learn more and find ways to take action.
We can’t save the climate if we don’t save the rainforests.
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Rainforest Action Network Following yesterday's rally to save Coal River Mountain, today we are asking folks across to country to call West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection at (304) 926-0499 (x1545) and demand that they intervene!
Take Action: Call Randy Huffman and ask the W.Va Dept. of Environmental Protection to Intervene at C
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Massey's mountaintop coal removal operations are happening only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above Pettus, WV. ...
Rainforest Action Network On December 7th in Charleston, W. Va, over 300 coalfield residents and their allies rallied to stop the blasting of Coal River Mountain and to demand a transition to a clean energy future.
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Rainforest Action Network December 7th is going to be an exciting day at Chevron's headquarters. If you live in the SF Bay Area, please join us at San Ramon, CA to send Chevron this message, loud and clear: "Our Climate is NOT Your Business!"
December 7th: Tell Chevron “Our Climate Is Not Your Business!” | Mobilization for Climate Justice WE
west.actforclimatejustice.org
In the greater Bay Area, the Mobilization for Climate Justice-West is organizing a series of demonstrations and educational events to generate “street heat” around climate justice and build a strong grassroots ...
Rainforest Action Network Whoohoo! After a two-month campaign by RAN and pressure from fashion industry leaders, the luxury packaging company PAK 2000 has announced that they will cut all financial ties with Asian Pulp and Paper/Sinar Mas Group – Indonesia’s biggest logger and one of its biggest and worst palm oil growers. Thank you to all of y...ou who participated in the online actions and helped make this happen!
Rainforest Action Network Are you a fan of Annie Leonard's mini-movie "The Story of Stuff"? Today, she launched "The Story of Cap and Trade" - a 10 minute production on why cap & trade will NOT solve our climate change dilemma. Check it out!
storyofstuff.com
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street ...
Rainforest Action Network A LOT is going on right now on N30! There is a major lockdown in S. Carolina, on a massive generator bound for the Cliffside Coal Plant. Now there are a dozen people locked down in the middle of the strong in front of the Chicago Climate Exchange. There's also a sit-in going on at the Canadian Finance Minister's offic...e in Ontario. Stay tuned for more updates!
www.actforclimatejustice.org
Rainforest Action Network
Today
is Nov. 30th - the 10th anniversary of the WTO protest in Seattle and
one week before the Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen. Folks around
the country are organizing major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil
disobedience actions to demand CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Check out this link
for a list of actions going on right now!
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Rainforest Action Network Police are now on the scene at an anti tarsands sit-in taking place in Calgary. Pictures: http://bit.ly/6yMEHJ
Rainforest Action Network The tar sands blow. Plain and simple. Share liberally!
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The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. ...
Rainforest Action Network Yesterday RAN's executive director Mike Brune sent a letter to Chevron’s incoming CEO John Watson and made him an offer: Come with us to Ecuador. As he begins to lead a company that has heavily contaminated the country, doesn't it make sense to witness the damage before he denies it?
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Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Rainforest Action Network Our RAN Toronto group publicly shames the Royal Bank of Canada's CEO, Gordon Nixon, at a business conference for financing the most destructive project in Canada - TARSANDS!
understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Rainforest Action Network
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We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rain
forest, but lately not a word. So what happened: Did we save it, or
not?"
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We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, but lately not a word. So what happened: Did we save it, or not?
Rainforest Action Network Activists continue to put pressure on EPA's Lisa Jackson to stop mountaintop removal on Coal River Mountain. When will the administrative step in and stop Massey Energy from dynamiting the area's last standing mountain?
understory.ran.org
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
